Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best ...

One hundred years after “nuclear isomers” were first discovered, Philip Walker and Zsolt Podolyák pick five examples of these long-lived, excited nuclear states to show why they are so important in ...

When UB chemists analyzed samples of water, fish and bird eggs, they weren’t surprised to find plenty of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). After all, these “forever chemicals” turn up nearly ...

NMR spectroscopy is very useful for identifying the chemical structure of compounds. It is not just capable of offering data with regards to the functional groups present but also offers data about ...

Micrometer-thin molecular sieve films are exciting considerable research interest as potential materials for chemosensors, catalysts, microelectronic devices, and separation membranes. Before such ...